Hi Eyal, I believe the target for a pop-up menu is the view that you pass in that method, at least initially. If there is an established responder chain from that view to other responders (up to and including First Responder) then the menu items should reach their target. But it’s pretty easy to break that chain, for example if the view isn’t set as allowing itself to become first responder. Just having a pop-up menu doesn’t refocus the view.
The usual approach is to create a pop-up menu in IB and wire it directly to the view that pops it up, targeting actions as needed. You don’t need to do anything special to make this menu pop-up, it will do so automatically when you right-click, and the target is directly set as the view (or other objects) so the whole responder chain management is avoided. If your menu is more dynamic, and creating a static menu in IB doesn’t seem to be a good fit, look at the menu delegation protocol, which allows you to populate a menu on the fly. You can still create a placeholder in IB to get automatic pop-up behaviour. —Graham (Forgive any misinformation, I’m getting a little rusty). > On 6 Mar 2023, at 3:27 am, Eyal Redler via Cocoa-dev > <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > I'm using popUpContextMenu:withEvent:forView: to show a context menu. The > menu contains several items whose target is the first responder (that is, > nil). But the items are not enabled and if I turn off autoEnable then the > action is never called on the first responder. > > Same target/action setup works just fine for the same items in the main menu, > as expected. > > Is this by design or am I missing something? > > Tia > > Eyal Redler > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "If Uri Geller bends spoons with divine powers, then he's doing it the hard > way." > --James Randi > www.eyalredler.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/graham.cox%40bigpond.com > > This email sent to graham....@bigpond.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
